Esoteric Lesson

GA 266b/1911-06-12/p011 ·1911-06-12 · English LowLow alignmentMost translators re-paragraphed Steiner substantially. The locus identifies the same chapter or section, but paragraph-N to paragraph-N mapping is loose. For exact-quotation precision, compare with the German.
Record: listeners' notes. Written from listeners' notes, summaries, or memory rather than a shorthand transcript. The wording is the note-taker's as much as Steiner's: weigh a single striking phrase here far more cautiously than the same phrase in a stenographic volume, and do not rest an argument on one word. Evidence: «Gedächtnisaufzeichnungen von Teilnehmern» (Participants' records written from memory). Rudolf Steiner Verlag Gesamtverzeichnis 2022, volume subtitle. The translation is the maintainer's, not a published one.

When we look at Saturn, we know that our physical body originated there in its first form. It arose from the thoughts of the gods, and these thoughts condensed into what we are today. But it was already planned on Saturn that human beings would continue the work of the gods, and we do this when we allow the spiritual substance of our environment to flow into us in order to build up our body of knowledge from it.

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